Category Archives: Spoken Word Shows
All shows where the primary focus is spoken word.
“An experience from the perspective of a parent”: new Baby Crafters workshop at the Charlotte Street Art Centre
Arts Matters Conference tenth anniversary sees highest numbers since COVID
UNB Student Union overhauls vice presidential positions, adds new Director of Communications
UNB signs Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism
UNB Reds Men’s Hockey’s new head coach finishes first regular season
ACORN New Brunswick demands regulation of NSF (Non Sufficient Funds) bank fees
University of New Brunswick Student Union discounted bus pass referendum succeeds
New Women in Cyber Security at UNB Hosts Courses and Guest Lectures in 2025
Guinness returns to Fredericton pubs in time for St. Patrick’s Day
Project AUDE: Board Game Developers at UNB Collaborate with Archives and Special Collections
A conversation with new deputy chief of the Fredericton Police Force
Free bike lock program aims to cut back on bike thefts on campus– but more people need to hear about it
UNB SU Debate 2025
On February 19, candidates for positions on the UNB Fredericton Student Union partook in a debate/Q&A moderated in part by CHSR’s own Mark Kilfoil.
Here is a recording of the discussion, with edits only to remove irrelevant matter (our trivia contests).
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Harvest Music Festival Announces New Site Layout
Harvest Music Festival will be making some changes heading into their 35th anniversary next year.
In a Facebook post the festival announced that they will be combining two of their main tents, the Blues and Mojo, into a new site for the festival that will make use of the new outdoor stage in Officers Square.
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Explore NB Open Returning Next Summer After Successful Inaugural Event
The PGA Tour Americas is coming back to Fredericton with the announcement that the Explore NB open will return for its second year, of a now five total committed, to Mactaquac Provincial Park Golf Course as the tours only event in Atlantic Canada.
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CHSR News – December 4th, 2024 – Premier Holt Announces Dates For Nurse Retention Payments, CUPE Yet To Agree
Nurses in New Brunswick have a date on when they will receive their promised 10,000$ retention bonuses from the Holt government.
It was announced that 9,950 retention payments will be sent out on December 19th, with the hopes that they will be received by Dec.31st or shortly into the new year.
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UNB soccer coach helping Canada Soccer grow
We speak with Joe Hamilton, UNB Men’s Soccer assistant coach and Video/Performance Analyst for Canada’s Men’s National Soccer Team.
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Fredericton’s Historic Beaver Statue Finds New Home
One of Fredericton’s most important artworks, has a new, permanent home in the city’s Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
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The Fredericton Frequency – November 18th – 22nd, 2024
This weeks episode features stories on the 61st Legislative Session, a bibliography on New Brunswick Archaeology, youth mental health and MRTI Agency’s 1st birthday.
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New Brunswick youth advocate speaks on new challenge paper “From Couch To Crisis”
Child, Youth and Seniors’ Advocate Kelly Lamrock hosted and spoke at a Youth Mental Health Symposium yesterday in downtown Fredericton, addressing youth and other professionals in the field on issues written in his new challenge paper From Couch To Crisis.
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61st New Brunswick legislative session opens with rent cap, electricity rebates
The 61st New Brunswick Legislative session kicked off this week.
Highlights from the throne speech include 10,000$ retentions payments for nurses, the implementation of a 3% rent cap effective February first, the removal of the provinces carbon adjuster on the price of gas and a 10% rebate on electricity bills.
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The MRTI Agency celebrates successful first year of music facilitation
Since 2012, Emma Chevarie has operated Music Runs Through It, a website that provided Frederictonians with weekly listings of all the music events happening in the city and a brand she would eventually promote her own shows under. After 13 years on her own, local radio DJ Rob Pinnock and his partner Krista Touesnard, a
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Trio of anthropology professors publish bibliography on New Brunswick archaeology
In the course of their 15 year friendship, anthropology professors Trevor Dow, Ken Holyoke and Gabe Hrynick, have compiled a running google doc of archaeological research in the province, an endeavour that has resulted in the now published Bibliography of New Brunswick Archaeology: Works to 2022.
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CHSR News – November 15th, 2024 – NB Lung Tackling Province Radon Concerns For Lung Month
NB Lung President and CEO Melanie Langille says organizations like hers have been increasing awareness over the last 10 to 15 years, and as a part of their initiatives for this month will be drawing for two 1000$ grants from those who purchase testing kits through NB Lung by the end of November, whose results test for high levels.
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